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A History
出版KTO Press, 1986
主題History / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN05271872249780527187224
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5iYSAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book looks at the the colony of Virginia and the underlying tensions and insecurities that characterized it from the beginning. This includes a work force dominated by bound laborers; planter aristocrats who had neighter the wealth nor leisure of English country squires; and increasing inequalities that produced great social and economic stratification. These uncertainties were eventually replaced by the wealth of the tabacco trade. Yet this industry forced the colony's dependence on a large unfree labor force. It also made the colony more susceptible to increasing British pressures, from creditors and Parliment alike. By the mid-eighteenth century, these tensions spurred Virginia into the Revolutionary fray, in which the colony's leaders (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and others) played a major role.